Man what a day!!! Over the past 12 hours i’ve read a dozen posts on “Twitter vs Friendfeed” and “Everyone is leaving Twitter” blah blah blah.

FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends.

It’s interesting cause a lot of people have been chatting about Friendfeed over the last week. Michael Arrington from Techcrunch wrote about it, iJustine who is the Internet wrote about it, TechTicker wrote about it, & several other posts & “influencers” in the Social Media world have talked about it. Jeremiah Owyang who is a Sr. Analyst at Forrester Research also wrote about that actually inspired me to write this post & do the Video below (more about his post below).

Techcrunch talks about how much more interesting the conversations are on FriendFeed vs Twitter (which to me are a HUGE part of Social Media), iJustine is talking about “who will go mainstream first - Twitter or Friendfeed” and “asks does it really matter”, and a few others are chiming in.

Check out my thoughts on this 8 Minute video on FriendFeed:

Its very interesting because with Social Media, things change so fast so you can’t focus on the “Social Technologies” but focus on the “Social Touch” side of things, the people, the conversations, the relationships, then figure out which technologies would best fit you.

There’s so many technologies out there and guess what, you don’t have to be on all of them to succeed in Social Media Marketing. I promise.

Listen, I LOVE Twitter, it’s really helped my business & I’ve made some tremendous advancements in my business just become of the little tool. This is NOT about who’s better. Twitter sure has been having some issues over the last few weeks & some of the functionality has been taken away for periods of time, etc. That’s inconvenient for the folks that spend 8 hours a day on Twitter. LOL

Not only is FriendFeed a GREAT solution for when Twitter is down, I think the concept and what FriendFeed is up to is pretty outstanding. They just “get it.”

So back to Jeremiah’s post about the “Herding Behavior on FriendFeed.” A couple more folks who are at Forrester (Charlene Lie & Josh Bernoff) wrote a book called “Groundswell - Winning in a transformed by social technologies” that talks about what Jeremiah referred today in his post. He talked about the Social “Technographics” which is a tool to allow people in business to examine and then create strategies based on the groundswell tendencies of any group of people.

The Social Technographics ladder represents a group of consumers more involved in the groundswell than the previous steps. Take a look at the image below:

Jeremiah says that…“aaside from aggregating content (you can see all my tweets, flickr, digg, upcoming, blogs on one stream) you yourself can be a creator, critic, collector, joiner, or spectator.”

It’s too soon to see who will go mainstream first, and if FriendFeed will do what Facebook did to Myspace, or predict any of those type of things, the one thing that is for sure is that FriendFeed’s concept is RIGHT ON. I think this is where social media is going as having all these tools, sites, etc in one place makes it easier to:

• be more productive (not having to login to 20 different sites)
• monitor you or your brand
• research & staying ahead of the pulse

Who’s to say that Twitter or FriendFeed won’t go under tomorrow, that’s irrelevant, the point is that FriendFeed is onto something with their concept and if the influencers are attracted to it, there’s definitely something to say about it.

Over the next week or so I’m going to be playing with it & will write about my thoughts about it.

What are YOUR thoughts about FriendFeed so far?

Please make sure to also leave your FriendFeed URL.

I’ll start http://FriendFeed.com/successfool

You’ll also wanna make sure to add my good buddy Maria Reyes-McDavis the WebSuccessDiva here: http://friendfeed.com/websuccessdiva

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Image source, Forrester and FriendFeed, screenshot taken by me

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DEADLINE EXTENDED TIL TUESDAY JUNE 17TH (a couple of the promoters - promoted it late & i wanna give their people a chance to enter)

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Because of the things I’ve learned in Social Media, not only have I created a 6 Figure Online business but a lot of my close friends have also benefited from the strategies that I’ve shared with them.

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Alright check it. I’m about to give you the HOTTEST interview that I’ve ever given out so far. Michelle Macphearson who is one of the top if not THE top Social Marketing experts on the planets. I’ve been following Michelle for some time now but we’ve built a really great friendship in the last month or so because of social networking sites.

Check this out, she asked me a few days ago to do an interview on what I’ve been doing and how I’ve used social media and networking sites to connect with influencer’s, gain tons of traffic to my sites, build strong relationships with top entrepreneurs & make money online.

So I figured there would be anywhere from 30-40 people on this call but I was completely wrong. I started to advertise it on Twitter and because of my connections and relationships, my friends started talking about it and it started to grow virally. Before I know it, over 400 people were registered on the call and over 200 people stayed on the hour long call that we did. I’ve been on a lot of conference calls and for a 20 hour notice, those numbers are unheard off.

Here’s the recording to show you how I dominate the social networking sites using simple yet highly effect strategies!!! This audio runs 81 minutes.

I’d be very interested to what you liked best about the interview and any questions you still might have? Also make sure to follow Michelle @michellem on Twitter. Leave YOUR Twitter ID here as well so we can all connect!

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Here’s a quick video about my thoughts on the first 30 days of Successfool.com. In this video, I’m to be giving 3 Tips that you can apply today to start driving more traffic to your business that I’m not going to be sharing in this post.

Here’s a some interesting stats for month 1:

Unique Visitors:
4,014 - Averaged 133 uniques a day

Alexa Rank:
330,807
(before April 1st was over 800k)

Top Referring Sites:
1. Stumble Upon
2. Twitter (only started using Twitter in the 2nd week of April)
3. Wikpedia

Top Referring Friend Site:
Alice Seba (thanks Alice!!)

Most Popular Post:
1. What is Twitter?
2. The Most Important Day of My Life

Most Popular Interview:
David Wilkinson (we really found out that he’s REAL )

Top Commentators:
Jason Stanley Marshall
Tony Smith

Most Commented Post:
The Most Important Day of My Life

Favorite Tweets:
http://twitter.com/JPmicek/statuses/790455632
http://twitter.com/Ed_Dale/statuses/793751483

Most Diggs:
http://digg.com/business_finance/The_Most_Important_Day_Of_My_Life

I wanna thank those that help me out in month one of Successfool, you know who you are, and you ROCK!!

Will YOU be on next month’s stats?

If you haven’t met Anthony Blake, you must. There’s a lot of marketers out there that “try” to be someone they’re not, try and cause controversy for no apparent reason, but Tony Blake is authentic as they come. He might curse, he might make you mad, call you out, or even make a video about you, but the guy when it comes to marketing, knows what he’s talking about.

In this interview, Tony shares what he’s been using Twitter for and why you need to start paying attention to the “tech” world folks! There’s a lot of good tips in there on marketing as well.

Make sure to check Tony out at The Blake Forum and also on Twitter here: http://twitter.com/tonyblakelive

Thanks Tony!

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This is a great interview with blog consultant, Remarkablogger Michael Martine.

I love this interview because I learned the importance of being “remarkable” on Twitter, provide value to the conversation, it’s going to pay huge dividends.

There’s too many on Twitter that are trying to take, take take, but not give.  If you are willing to give and set yourself up as someone that is remarkable, then Twitter is for you.  If not, good luck.

Make sure to download Michael’s ‘82′ page ebook on “How to Start a Business Blog” and follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/remarkablogger.

Thanks so much Michael for some awesome information!

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 Twitter Interview with Michael Martine: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Hey folks, I told you in the What is Twitter? post that I was going to be interviewing some folks that are using Twitter to chime in and talk about why they’re using Twitter, what are some of the benefits they’re seeing so far, and how they’re using it.

Fortunately I had some Twitterer’s (or whatever they’re called) that were interested in discussing they’re experience with Twitter thus far.

The first interview is with Kevin Riley of Product Creation Labs. Kevin has a very cool story on Twitter about how he went an idea to creating a product in ONE week just by utilizing Twitter. Kevin shares the communication and networking benefits of Twitter and how it’s going to be around for a VERY long time.

Make sure to follow Kevin on Twitter here: twitter.com/kevinriley

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 Twitter Interview with Kevin Riley: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download